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Re: The Nautical Day a detail...
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2004 Feb 8, 16:48 +0000
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2004 Feb 8, 16:48 +0000
Zorbec Legras wrote- >The Connaissance des temps is published in french and in English by the >French "Institut de m?canique c?leste et de calcul des ?ph?m?rides" and >the "Bureau des Longitudes" sinds 1769. > > >http://www.imcce.fr/publif.html#Connaissance ============= I'm hesitant to correct Zorbec Legras about a French navigational publication, but I have here an illustration of the title page of the first issue of "La Connoissance des Temps" (as it was spelled then), which was for the year 1679, not 1769. George. ================================================================ contact George Huxtable by email at george@huxtable.u-net.com, by phone at 01865 820222 (from outside UK, +44 1865 820222), or by mail at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK. ================================================================